Projects / Case Histories

VS Project
Optimising Project Performance

A major pharmaceuticals company approached ECCS’s partner integra to help them improve the “time to market” in a long term drug discovery project. Existing systems were unable to integrate multiple versions and generations of the same project, and measure the impact of project revisions and the effect on resources in real time. Integra developed VS Project to “fill the gap”.

Key features of the product include the ability to:

• Update project revisions in real time – without starting from scratch
• Visually compare multiple projects with the baseline
• Measure immediate impact on resources
• Revise project revisions dynamically
• Revise the critical path in real time

VS Project can be used as a standalone project management tool or as a mechanism for integrating all aspects of project management, throughout the lifecycle of the project, from conception through to full realisation of the project benefits.

For further information on this product, please contact ECCS.

Major Water Utility
ECCS has provided ongoing MAXIMO™ training for a major Water Utility since 2001. The deliverables of the Project has included the following phases; System Familiarisation, Training Data Set up and Access Verification, Updates to Existing Training Materials, Development of Evaluation Criteria, Training Delivery, Formal Reviews and Project Management.

The work was commissioned after a post implementation review identified that there were discrepancies in how MAXIMO™ was used across the organisation. Several training course profiles were identified across multiple training venues to introduce a consistent way of using the MAXIMO™ product.

Civil Engineering Contract – One of the Largest in Ireland
ECCS recently won a tender to implement MAXIMO™ on one of the largest civil engineering contracts ever undertaken in Ireland.

Toyota Motor Corporation
Toyota's decision to establish a manufacturing operation in Europe was announced in 1989 and Toyota Manufacturing (UK) was established in December that year. There are two manufacturing plants in the UK representing a total investment in excess of £1.7 billion and currently over 5,500 members are employed. The vehicle manufacturing plant is located at Burnaston in Derbyshire,

ECCS was commissioned by Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd to implement the MAXIMOTM Computerised Maintenance Management System and SQL Server Database for the Assembly Division. Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd moved from a manual based system.

The World’s Leading Manufacturer of Construction and Mining Equipment, Diesel and Natural Gas Engines and Industrial Gas Turbines
ECCS assisted this organization become more proactive by implementing a CMMS together with Mobile Working and Mobile Inventory with bar-coded stores – ECCS helped streamline all procedures including reactive and planned maintenance; and inventory and procurement management.

The main business drivers for the implementation were as follows:

• Reduction of all Maintenance and Inventory costs.
• Measure of Downtime and its’ cost to the Business.
• Measures of Uptime and Yield. The business wanted to work towards 85% with a minimum of 68%. Currently the business averages around 64 to 65%.
• To retain histories.
• Better utilisation and effectiveness of in-house resource.
• Reduce/remove paper flows.

To achieve the above key business drivers, the following objectives were identified and used to measure the success of the CMMS:

• Streamline management of Inventory (including spare parts) and in particular identification and accountability to ensure sufficient levels are stocked.
• Reduce the amount of Reactive Maintenance and increase Planned Maintenance.
• Improve scheduling and assignment of Planned Maintenance to make better utilisation of in-house resource.
• Record histories on all maintenance against asset/s.
• Streamline Purchasing and Invoice Matching for Service Contracts and Materials.
• Improve Training.
• Reduce if not remove the paper trail.
• Track and monitor usage and cost of all assets.
• All Criteria identified in the Requirements Specification successfully met.

Serco – SAP Interface
Serco has grown to become one of the world’s leading service companies. Their work ranges from the management of facilities, projects and IT systems, through to the creation of entirely new businesses. This includes the financing, design and build of new facilities, including hospitals and transport systems, as well as their day-to-day operation. They run world-class scientific establishments, provide critical information to manage traffic, maintain buildings, operate railways and detain offenders.

ECCS was commissioned to develop an interface between MAXIMOTM and SAP. The business requirement addressed was the need to have all customer request information in SAP without additional effort to update the system manually and to be able to create a work/service order and a bill related to the requests.

Lloyds TSB
Raindrop Information Systems produce the Manhattan Property Information Management System. This is a configurable piece of software that allows organisation to manage properties that they own or lease. It enables them to keep track of leases granted or taken, tenancy agreements and the various break, review and expiry options as well as managing the payment/collection of rents, service charges etc. The usage of the properties can also be tracked and analysed.

For Lloyds ECCS has provided bespoke reporting solutions for Manhattan using Microsoft Access covering the following areas:

• Reporting on properties and leases by various organisational hierarchies.
• Data integrity reports.
• Reports to allow administration of Rents Payable to see in advance what rents are to fall due.
• Multi dimensional reporting databases to allow detailed analysis of space utilisation and to allow transfer pricing within Lloyds TSB based on internal departments use of space.
• Creation of an interface to allow rents due in Manhattan to be paid from the Lloyds SAP system.
• Reports to allow Surveyors/Estates Managers to review and analyse their portfolio and allow them to see forthcoming work/liabilities/reviews/lease terminations over a time window that they can define.
• General support in the creation of ad-hoc reports using MS Access against the Manhattan database.
  

Actuate Reports
ECCS has undertaken numerous Actuate Report Writing Projects on behalf of several Clients; this has utilised both Actuate 7 and 8 across MAXIMOTM Version 5.2 and MXES. This has included two major Power organisations and a leading Pharmaceutical organisation that underwent an upgrade to MAXIMOTM Version 5.2 resulting in numerous Reports having to be created in Actuate. Both Power organisations had upgraded to MXES.

Data Migration
ECCS were required to develop a philosophy, and an implementation strategy for researching and migrating data from various databases including Excel Spreadsheets, Word Documents and the stand alone installation of MAXIMOTM for an international Client Site. The overall objective was to create a stand alone MAXIMOTM environment that would identify all required Equipment, associated Plan Maintenance Schedules and related Job Plans.

Wrigleys
The Wrigley Company is the world's largest manufacturer and marketer of chewing and bubble gum and a leader in the confectionery marketplace with a diverse portfolio of innovative products, that include some of the best-known brands in the world such as: Juicy Fruits, Doublemint, Big Red, Wrigley’s Spearmint Gum, Airwaves, Alpine, Eclipse, Extra, Freedent, Orbit P.K and Winterfresh. Although publicly trading since 1923, William Wrigley Jr. founded the company in 1891. The Wrigley Company Ltd now operates in 150 countries worldwide with 34 totally owned subsidiaries of Wm Wrigley Jr. Company, one of which in the UK was established in 1925. At the UK Site’s Plymouth Headquarters 25% of production is for export markets. Since 1911 Wrigley’s chewing gum has been a refreshing part of everyday life in the UK and now over 28 million people in the UK regularly chew gum.

ECCS was commissioned by The Wrigley Company Ltd to implement the MAXIMOTM Computerised Maintenance Management System at The Wrigley Company Ltd (UK Headquarters Site based at Plymouth) and ECCS continues to provide support to this Client on an ongoing basis.

Seabed-to-surface Engineering and Construction Contractor for the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
ECCS had members of staff on site on a permanent basis with this Client for more than three years working on the MAXIMOTM system.

Leading Provider of High-Value Diagnostic Products and Services
For more than half a century, this company has been committed to providing accurate, timely, and cost-effective solutions for screening, diagnosing, monitoring and confirming diseases. ECCS carried out an upgrade to MAXIMOTM Version 5.2 within very tight timescales for this Client.

Cement Manufacturing Plant
This site covers some 500 acres and has two quarries of shale and limestone. The site manufactures various grades of bulk and bag Ordinary Portland Cement. ECCS carried out the initial implementation of MAXIMOTM and Workflow and continues to support this Client with developing requirements on an ongoing basis.

Data Loading Solution
ECCS successfully developed a solution to facilitate the quick and easy collection of PM and Equipment for loading into MAXIMO™. The application developed is able to deal with large amounts of data being extracted from MAXIMO™, amended and then imported back into the system.